Originally posted by Wolfblood77
I recall reading in one of the Bullpen Bulletins at the back of a comic someone asking the editor (Bob Harras?) why Wolverine's bones don't pop out his body after he falls of a building or something. His answer was that each of his bones were connected by microscopic adamantium chains. I've been trying to find it in the back of my old comics but can't locate it.
Heard about that chains theory, too. That would explain why some of his bones can get dislocated but not severed.
Originally posted by emporerpants
awesome, thanks guys. does anyone have any scans of silver samurai or sabertooth trying to cut off wolverine's head or sever his spinal column? those scans would totally own this guy i'm arguing with.
Here ya go.
I think it boils down to how his individual bones are connected to one another and the degree of the tensile strength that holds the connecting bones together. you have to understand human anatomy and physiology to appreciate the complexities behind wolverine's adamantium skeleton and the ultra high tensile joints. Having an adamantium skeleton will be extremely hard to decapitate, why?, because the distance of how two individual bones connects is extremely small, meaning there is less space for connective tissues like tendons and ligament, that explains why a sword will stop and not cut through his spine, fingers, joints, because the blade will hit two connecting adamantium bones, hence it will break or stop the sword's force.
99% of the time, the blade does not get to hit in-between two connecting adamantium bones, especially bones as complex in structure and shape. ones with irregular shapes; vertebra, ribs, humerus, radius, tibia, phalanges, scapula, patella etc.. but in most cases the blade gets to hit individual bones covered with adamantium.
like before another explanation is why he is indestructible is the tensile strength of his joints, especially his tendons and ligament. you have to understand that the weight of the adamantium will put pressure on his tendons and ligament, hence his body has to keep up with the new weight of his highly dense bones. fortunately for him, is constant regenerative healing factor allows his body to either make new tendon packed tissues to support the weight or it constantly tears and repairs itself to hold his joints together, so this will explain why his ball and socket joints ( femur and humerus) gets popped out but not ripped out, that is why baal couldn't rip his arms out, the tensile strength holding two bones is too strong.
Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
[B]Heard about that chains theory, too. That would explain why some of his bones can get dislocated but not severed.
Adamantium chains holding his bones together is the best explanation I have read so far because they have nothing to do with tendons or ligaments and allow full motion. Mind you, the answer I read was from when Wolverine got his adamantium from the weapon x program and since then he has lost it and had it returned by Apocalypse. The process may not have been the same.
Basically it is up to the writers. So far we have seen that Ultimate Wolverine can be torn apart and the 616 version has resisted it... but that can change at any time. Honestly, I hope they don't have this happen in the 616 universe because once it happens the first time, it becomes a recurring theme and you'll see his limbs getting ripped off every other issue like in the Ultimate Universe.
